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AMD’s Leap into Opteron

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AMD’s Hammer technology has been on the minds of PC enthusiasts, IT professionals and super computing junkies for the past three to four years. When the Opteron name and branding was announced back in April of 2002 (see our technology overview here) the anticipation grew to a steady din and has remained that way ever since.